Blog in France

The use of digital textbooks in French schools has risen sharply in the last three years, according to a survey by TNS Sofres on behalf of school textbook publishers Savoir Lire. However, it seems that further growth is being hampered by a lack of funds to acquire hardware and content. In...

We don’t have as many turkeys as we did before Christmas – no surprise there – but we still have four: three blacks (two males, one female) and one white male. For the last few days the two black males have been displaying non-stop. Well, they do stop occasionally to...

These have to have been the fastest holidays ever. It really only seems like five minutes since we were collecting Caiti from Chateauroux station, but this evening I dropped her back there for her return journey to Canada. It hasn’t started smoothly. SNCF have decided to be awkward and introduced...

Public domain pic by Larisa Koshkina We’re now into the Twelve Days of Christmas – les jours festifs. Opinion seems pretty evenly divided as to whether these start on Christmas Day itself, what I’d always believed, or on Boxing Day. Here in France they tend towards the latter, so that...

Oh no, oh woe, some thieving git Has done a runner with St Nick! For seven Noëls Santa’s survived, Tied to the gate at the end of our drive, Stoically, he’s clung on there Fixing passers-by with his manic stare. But someone’s done some St Nick nicking – A strange...